In the New World ‘We Are the Spark’ There’s something that’s been stirring in me. Maybe evoking a little of the feminist 70’s era that I was a part of. But it’s a much bigger movement than that. You, too, might have felt some of...

What kind of crazy person would jump out of bed on a Sunday morning at 8:15 to play tennis? To flesh out the picture a little more, today’s forecast predicted a high of 34 degrees. Without a cloud in the sky. High humidity was going to add another layer of...

Cute Koalas – Really? This audio recording will disprove the notion that cute koalas are perfectly cuddly and charming. Regular readers of Yoga Suits Her will notice that my usual yoga emphasis has gone by the boards while I’ve been traveling for the last...

We didn’t plan it. Actually, we’ve done remarkably little planning on this our 4-month odyssey around the eastern half of Australia. But we lucked out! Apparently the central and southern desert regions of the Northern Territory have had more than their...

Ultimate Nature ‘Ultimate’ is a term bandied around these days in an effort to impress, the word meaning the finest of its kind. Meaning none better. Meaning superior. New as I am to being on the road, I’m observing for the first time how many motor...

Recently I learned (or learned for the 1,000th time) a Be Kind to Yourself lesson. If you’re like me, you don’t learn these vital life lessons easily. This is why long life can be a good thing. Because you can buy a little more time, and hopefully more...

The kindness of friends I’ve always thought that practising kindness was one of the most beautiful yoga practices there is. I’m not always good at it but kindness and generosity are my aims. In this post, I’d like to credit some of the many people...

Like most people, I wear many hats. Hats relating to being a home manager, wife, yoga teacher, community volunteer, and so forth. Just today I became aware of a hat that I put on almost every day but have been overlooking. It’s time to lay claim to the title of...

I’ve been away for a couple of weeks, visiting family in the U.S. When I came back to Australia, I went on retreat for 8 days. I want to share with you a few things I learned on this hiatus. These are insights that I might even categorise as spiritual...

Enough Already! Extropical cyclones, low pressure troughs, East Coast lows, whatever you call them, they all have the potential for giving us the rain blues. On the eastern seaboard of Australia, and even inland, we’ve had record-breaking rainfalls this autumn. ...

When Luck Wears Thin I’ve heard the expression a few times this week, ‘Aren’t we lucky?’. That is, we’re lucky to live on the mid-north coast of New South Wales because we dodged the torrential rains and gale force winds that our southern...

An Ancient Landscape Why is it that we admire things from Nature that are tremendously old but that we have so little regard for aged people? Recently a group of us plied the Murray River in South Australia on a houseboat. As the sun set on our first night out, I...